T Quotes
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“The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.”
Source: Portrait of Canada
“The central feature of pride is enmity—enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. Enmity means “hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition.” It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over us.”
“The central feature of the practice of meditation and hard work known as Zen is that, as Matthiessen says, it “has no patience with mysticism, far less the occult.” Nor does it have any time with moralism, the prescriptions or distortions we would impose on the world, obscuring it from our view. It asks, it insists rather, that we take this moment for what it is, undistracted, and not cloud it with needless worries of what might have been or fantasies of what might come to be. It is, essentially, a training in the real…”the Universe itself is the scripture of Zen." Pico Iyer from introduction.”
Source: The Snow Leopard
“The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman.”
“The central fire is desire, and all the powers of our being are given us to see, to fight for, and to win the object of our desire. Quench that fire and man turns to ashes.”
“The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.”
Source: The royal beasts and other works
“The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.”
“The central hypothesis of the theory is that language acquisition occurs in only one way: by understanding messages.”
Source: The Natural Approach: Language Acquisition in the Classroom
“The central icon of Catholic Christianity is mother and child. That motif is so deep in not just our human experience but in our animal, biological past.”
“The central idea about Bliss is that there is nowhere to reach, nothing to prove, no one to impress, nothing to achieve…you just follow it, for the sake of your inner joy…and it will lead you to where you must arrive!”
“The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.”
“The central idea of love is not even a relationship commitment, the first thing is a personal commitment to be the best version of yourself with or without that person that you're with. You have to every single day-mind, body, and spirit-wake up with a commitment to be better.”
“The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.”
“The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles. Probe the smaller particles, you'll find something else, a tiny vibrating filament of energy, a little tiny vibrating string.”
“The central idea of the Eastern Fathers was that of theosis, the divinization of all creatures, the transfiguration of the world, the idea of the cosmos and not the idea of personal salvation...Only later Christian consciousness began to value the idea of hell more than the idea of the transfiguration and divinization of the world...The Kingdom of God is the transfiguration of the world, the universal resurrection, a new heaven and a new earth.”
“The central ideas of Christianity — an angry God and vicarious atonement — are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions. Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution. And still we hear the cry, 'The whole world for Christ'.”
Source: The Monist
“The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.”
“The central industry of modern civilisation, tending, because of its control over materials, to spread into and ultimately incorporate older industries such as mining, smelting, oil- refining, textiles, rubber, building, and even agriculture in respect to fertilizers and food processing.”
Source: Science in history
“The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.”
“The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture, or systems. The core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of people.”
Source: The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations
“The central issue of poetry as of politics is the destiny of the human personality.”
“The central job of schools is to maximize the capacity of each students.”
“The central law of all wholesome life is reciprocity, mutuality. ... But the group is valuable only as it permits personalities, not automatons, to emerge.”
“The central lesson of the COVID-19 fiscal response is that money is not scarce. Without delay, governments around the world appropriated budgets that dwarfed any other post-war crisis policy.”
Source: Modern Monetary Theory: Key Insights, Leading Thinkers
“The central message of every religion is love, yet our world is bedeviled by hate.”
Source: Sips And Little Portions
“The central message of the Bible is about God redeeming a humanity that is in trouble and suffering.”
“The central message of the Clare series, I think, is not to underestimate or marginalize those who you deem weaker or different than yourself as you have no idea what they’re capable of. You never know – those of whom you relentlessly persecute may just end up killing you.”
“The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man.”
Source: Miracles
“The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.”
“The central movement of the mind is the desire for unrestricted liberty and (...) this movement is invariably accompanied by its opposite, a dread of the consequences of liberty.”
Source: The ides of March
“The central objective in decolonising the African mind is to overthrow the authority which alien traditions exercise over the African. This demands the dismantling of white supremacist beliefs, and the structures which uphold them, in every area of African life. It must be stressed, however, that decolonisation does not mean ignorance of foreign traditions; it simply means denial of their authority and withdrawal of allegiance from them.”
“The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.”
“The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to.”
“The central paradox of motherhood is that while our children become the absolute center of our lives, they must also push us backout in the world.... But motherhood that can narrow our lives can also broaden them. It can make us focus intensely on the moment and invest heavily in the future.”
“The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.”
“The central part of the state is more remote and less scenic, and there's a huge agricultural belt that stretches from the south of Lake Okeechobee to the border of Everglades National Park, where the restoration effort is being concentrated, .. Obviously the movement to save the Everglades runs up against agricultural concerns.”
“The central planners of Democratic Socialism tighten their noose when people resist their plans and assert their rights. All Socialism is intended to devolve into Communism, and as a result, Totalitarianism.”
“The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the behavioral and statistical and scientific methods that have been brought to bear to study hallucinogenic experience.”
“The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“The central point of this final chapter is that - follow my logic carefully here - unless you die, you will continue to get older. (It's insights like this that separate the professional book author from the person with a real job.)”
Source: Dave Barry Turns Forty
“The central position of finance capital is going to come to an end, and it's going to steadily move to the sides, the margins of our society, transformed from being a master into a servant, a servant to the productive economy and of human needs.”
“The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.”
“The central premise of great leadership is recognizes that fundamental fact, that not of us are fixed entities, and taking responsibility for making sure that we bring out our people's best selves.”
“The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.”
“The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.”
“The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.”
Source: The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of spirituality
“The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.”
Source: Experience and Education: The 60th Anniversary Edition
“The central problem of biological evolution is the nature of mutation, but hitherto the occurrence of this has been wholly refractory and impossible to influence by artificial means, although a control of it might obviously place the process of evolution in our hands.”
“The central problem of brand-building is getting a complex organization to execute a simple idea.”
Source: The Designful Company: How to build a culture of nonstop innovation
“The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management”